Research Group

Ph.D. students

• Chengpiao Huang
  Outstanding Student Service Award, Department of IEOR, Columbia University, 2026.
  Deming Doctoral Fellowship, 2025.
  Best Student Presentation Award, The 38th New England Statistics Symposium (NESS 2025).
  Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of IEOR, Columbia University, 2025.
  Second Place Award, 2023 INFORMS Blue Summit Supplies Data Challenge.
  

• Seok-Jin Kim
  Student Travel Award (paper), 2025 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS).
  

• Nathan Weill
  

• Yuhang Wu (Co-advised with Assaf Zeevi at Columbia DRO)
  Second Place Award, 2023 INFORMS Blue Summit Supplies Data Challenge.
  

• Yu-Shiou Willy Lin (Co-advised with Garud Iyengar at Columbia IEOR)
  Spotlight presentation (paper) at NeurIPS 2025 ML×OR Workshop: Mathematical Foundations and Operational Integration of Machine Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making.
  
  

Alumni

• Zhongyuan Lyu (Postdoc co-mentored with Yuqi Gu at Columbia Statistics)
  Lecturer (equivalent to US tenure-track Assistant Professor) of Business Analytics at the University of Sydney Business School.
  

• Kecen Sha (Undergraduate)
  Incoming PhD student in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
  

• Weizhong Wang (Undergraduate)
  Incoming PhD student in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University.
  

• Elise Han (Undergraduate)
  PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
  INFORMS Scholarship and Bonomi Scholarship in 2024.
  

• Alan Ma (Undergraduate)
  Data Science Institute scholarship, Spring 2025.
  

• Caden Lin (Undergraduate)
  

• Yuxi (Eric) Chen (Undergraduate)
  PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
  

• Naomi Toft (Undergraduate)
  

• Geraldine Nina Montano (Undergraduate)
  Bonomi Scholarship, Summer 2023.
  

• Rain Wei (Undergraduate)
  Bonomi Scholarship, Summer 2023.
  

• Yuhang Wu (Undergraduate)
  PhD student at the Decision, Risk, and Operations (DRO) division at Columbia Business School.
  

• Alice Chen (Master)
  

• Sara Zhao (Undergraduate)
  Stephen D. Guarino Memorial Award in 2022. This is made annually to one member of the senior class of IEOR, in recognition of superior achievement and in honor of the integrity, curiosity and creativity exhibited as a student at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
  

• Ethan Turok (Undergraduate)